Recent Exchange of UK Driving License for French?

Cars / Motoring / Insurance
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Just an open question on behalf of a pal…
I’m presuming ANTS is working OK ??

Anyone any info to add, please ???

EDIT: the DL expires in October, so I’m told…

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ANTS appears to be working OK.

Thanks to Kim Cranstoun and her Facebook group, I received my French driving licence a couple of weeks ago. Nearly one month prior to the expiry of my UK licence.

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ANTS is functioning ok, with average turn-round for the soon to be expired licenses running at about 6 months.

So if they put their application in exactly 6 months before expiry, and did it correctly, all should be well. Nothing happens until you get the request to send in your old licence, which is a bit disturbing but normal.

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When you do. make sure you scan it and have copies, just in case.

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I applied to exchange my UK licence at the end of January 22 and received my French replacement mid June 22.

As it took then over 6 months to process it, the 1 point infraction that caused me to exchange my licence expired before I received the new one.

ANTS worked perfectly throughout.

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thanks to everyone for your replies… I’ll meet up with said chappie and check his DL and then we’ll take it from there.

cheers

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Almost last question… :wink:

where/how did folk get the UK DL translated ???

@Mat_Davies how did you do this ??

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I didn’t get mine translated, but it was changed for a French one.

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Hmmm. I might well be picking your brains… do you like orange cake??? :wink:

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Ditto

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Aha… I suppose you’d like orange cake too… ??? :wink:

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I don’t think I had to supply a translation of my UK plastic card…

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I’ve carefully re-read various pages and now noted that it’s one of those things which “might” be requested… so fingers crossed…

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If fact the communication from ANTS tells you to do this and keep the copies with the attestation they supply.

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Absolutely… I always say “take a copy”… much better to have too many copies than to lose a useful/valuable document…

and there’s me… who didn’t take a copy of my S1 a century ago… I was too new at all this stuff.
phew thank heaven’s I’ve never been asked for it (again)… even so… I strongly urge others to keep a copy of their S1…

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I would say yes, but today I started a regime…again :wink: :face_with_open_eyes_and_hand_over_mouth:
But I might want to pick your brain sometime soon, now that we have ‘lost’ Mark Rimmer.

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Please don’t hope for too much… (but I always do the best I can…)

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No tranlsations needed for UK licences.

The thing to watch is NOT to tick the box “retraité” as this is only for people in receipt of specific FRENCH pensions.

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thanks to everyone for replies and messages…

My pal has made his Application and received a message/whatever saying “it’s in the system”. :crossed_fingers: :+1:

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From this point mine took 6 months

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